Geeks To Go is a helpful hub, where thousands of volunteer geeks quickly serve friendly answers and support. Check out the forums and get free advice from the experts. Register now to gain access to all of our features, it's FREE and only takes one minute. Once registered and logged in, you will be able to create topics, post replies to existing threads, give reputation to your fellow members, get your own private messenger, post status updates, manage your profile and so much more.

Help Needed Fixing Badly Behaving Fonts

TStodden

Posted 14 July 2007 - 01:44 PM

TStodden

New Member

Member

5 posts

This has been going for quiet some time, but I haven't had any success fixing it myself... so I come here for assistance.

For some reason, my computer has been a little... temperamental with with displaying fonts in certain windows. From installers to games & even trying to print from Firefox I get nothing but boxes that are supposed to be letters.

This issue has varied from annoying to frustrating, especially in some games where all the text is nothing but for stupid boxes.

To add to the confusion, when I try to view my own webpages offline in Opera... It's all in Greek text!!!

Is there anything that I can do to fix this problem without reinstalling (or upgrading) Windows?

Major Payne

Posted 16 July 2007 - 06:52 PM

Major Payne

Retired Staff

Retired Staff

5,307 posts

Hope the font fixer works for you. Just a thought, but do you have a System Restore point early enough where all was working that you can revert back to? Trying to remember if Win ME has CAB folder where you can extract a new set of fonts into Windows' font folder. Extract.exe is a command-line-driven DOS program that can be used, but I don't remember how to extract the specific files you need. I know how to start the command from the MS-DOS prompt, but that's it. Maybe someone else remembers how to get the specific fonts from point A to Point B. lol.